The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-07-02
1.-THE MISSION OF EDUCATED MAN. ,
President Cone of Buchtel College.

The Akron Universalist Church was
well filled Sunday morning, June 10, at
IL o'clock, to listen to the Baccalau-
reate sermon to the graduating class of
Buchtel College, by Rev. DR.. o. Cone,
President of that College. Mr.. John R.
Buchtel, who has been confined to his
home from stroke of paralysis for
many weeks, was present in his wheeled
chair, and by his presence added much
to the pleasure of the occasion. The
quartet choir furnished some choice
music for the occasion. At the conclu-
sion of the very excellent sermon, Rev.
@. Ellwood Nash took an expression of
the audience which unanimously voted
in favor of DIR. Cones address being
printed in The Beacon, and also in THE
UNIvERsALIsT Following is a very
liberal synopsis of the grand sermon:
go ye into all the world"-Mark xvi. I5.
This is the commandment of the
greatest of teachers to his disciples.
They had had course Of preparation
in listening to his teaching, and had
caught something Of his spirit. In the
Masters sending them out is implied
that they had mission to the world,
which was the completing of the great
work which he had begun. 1t is also
to be assumed that he thought them
qualified. Yet we know how made
quately they had comprehended him.
The world, the school of experience,
must still further qualify them. So
college graduates have but made be-
ginning in the course of discipline
which contact with the world will con-
tinue. The college in sending its grad
yates into the world implies that they
have mission to the world, and that
it has work for them. Only on this
ground can it justify its existence.
The college must be assumed to supply
in the world peculiar need, to furnish
peculiar quality or men and women.
1t does not exist that young men and
women may spend four years within its
walls to be afterward only exquisites
and dilettante, but to qualify them for
such work in the world as they could
not do without this training. The need
of special preparation is felt more keenly
as civilization becomes more complex
and competition sharper. Hence the
various schools of preparation in law,
theology and medicine. The college
occupies unique position in respect to
the preparation Of men for life. 1t
does not exist alone to send men into
the learned professions. 1t commits
sions its graduates not only as lawyers,
physicians and theolOgians, but as ed
ucated men. The educated man! He
is the man of trained faculties, of keen
insight, of fine power of analysts, of log
ical force, taught to seek after causes,
to generalize, to relate phenomena.
The educated man In all the great
movements of the world in civilization
he has been a foremost champion-in
the contest for liberty, the keen pamph-
letter, the profound jurist, the Trainer
of laws and constitutions, the eloquent
orator and even the successful soldier.
The educated man He has created
the literatures of the world which stand
monumental in every age to show how
high the tide of life has risen. The
educated man From his fertile mind
has sprung the science which has be-
come the glory of this age; which has
mastered the forces of matter and made
them subservient to the civilization of
mankind which has revealed in an as
pect of benignity those terrific powers
of the elements, before which ignorance
stood dumb with superstitious awe
which has hung its trophies in every